The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-04-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

Smoked red, whatever they may be,
10 named among the new fashionable
colors. Chicago Herald.
lin New York City there are said tc
be 5000 families who receive help from
charitable associations and the city.
"A wonderful gold mine has been
discovered in Sonora, Mex. The miners
get pure metal by breaking the quartz
with hammers.
The double-turret ship Trafalgar,
which is the largest armor-clad that has
ever been built at Portsmouth, England,
is to be ready for launching next Sep
TENDER. She was only begun last
January.
1 "A farmer near Waldron. Mo-, has
= healthy four-months-old pig that has
two feet on each leg, and on each foot
five toes. Such breed Of pigs would
be profitable in community partial to
picked pig's-feet.-St. Louis Post.
The London Christian World rightly
says that 1.-THE promise to pay for
newspaper is neither more nor less
sacred than promise to pay for farm"
On. B. Dear reader, have you paid for
your paper?- United Presbyterian.
The candied sweet potato is Phil
Adelphia confectionery. 1t is nothing
but sweet potatoes carefully boiled and
quartered aud then candied in boiling
strip, but Il is said to be dainty and
tender and of delicious flavor.
"A mine of beryls is new find in
Connecticut The beryls already taken
out include the variety known as golden
beryls and rank as precious stones
only two places lower than diamonds.
There are also other brilliant colors
found in this mine. Hartford Courant.
Berlin is to have q new Roman
bath-house on grand scale and fur
nished with all ancient and modern
luxuries. Among the novel features
will be a laundry in which guests can
have their clothes washed and ironed
while they are bathing.
An elderly gentleman who delights
in calculations contributes this: IF the
immortal George Washington, when he
was forty-eight years of age. had stepped
into railroad Office and pawned his
little Ratchet for ticket to the plane
Mars, he would at the rate of fifty mile!
an hour, have arrived there this year.
:-S. Adams Messenger.
The coast of Norway is sinking
gradually, while that of Sweden il
emerging more and more, and the Bal
tic is becoming shallower. Landmark
made on the Swedish coast by the cele
brated naturalist Linn@us. at the be
ginning of the eighteenth century, SHOW
that this unheaval raises that coast abou
four feet in the course of century.
-Twclve-year-old James Manley, o
North Hastings, while out in the wood
with an axe and dog, came upon bi;
buck. The dog started in pursuit, tn
deer slipped on the ice and his antler
became entanglcd in some brush, ant
Jimmy, rushing up, killed the deer wit
one blow of the axe. He is the proud
est boy in Canada. Montreal Witness
There was missionary concert a
Rockland church the other evening
and among other things was paper o.
missionary work read by a young lady
When she had finished, the leader Q
the meeting said: 1--WE will now sin
-Hallelujah, lis Done" Where's
everybody smiled.-Rockland Courie,
Gazette
Prof. Rogers, Of Watervillc Colleg,
Maine, has recently compared fourtee
of the most trustworthy thermometer
in the town with his standard instr
ment. Tests were made at six grade
of temperature, or eighty-four tests
all, and in only four of these were th
town thermometers correct. In eight
cases they were all wrong from on
fourth of degree to four degrees, viii
one instrument was eleven degrees OF
of the way.
Luke Lawson's dog barked at ALE
Ballantyne as he was going to schoo
He went home and got revolver, an
when the dog barked at him agai
fired. The ball went wide of the do,
but crashed through window ar
struck Mrs. Lawson in the breast as 81
sat rocking her baby. She lived but
few moments. Young Ballantyne to
his father what had happened, and Il
old man handed his son over to the a
thorities. This was at Lake Georg
N. B.
"A Norwegian engineer. w. C. Nc
Ter. has found that reindeer hair al
skin possesses remarkable buoyanc
and when the unshorn skin is used as
life-belt it has the advantage over col